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Dismissing the £839 figure as a “guesstimate”, the solicitor said: “It is nonsense - it was a few wee dents and these people are trying to make money out of this.”

Asking for leniency from the magistrates, he added: “Like many of us marriage has rescued him from his bad ways and he is otherwise a good man.

“I’ve told the defendant to keep out of it and let the cooler, calmer matriarch deal with it.”

Summing up, the chairman of the bench, Roseanne Forster, said: “It’s always difficult when you are living next door to neighbours who do not subscribe to the same practices in terms of manners and basic politeness.

“I think you should keep well away from anything because you’ll end up here.”

He was ordered to pay a fine of £360, compensation of £200, costs of £85 and a victim surcharge of £36.